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**Spaces now available for 2 or 4 players at Glorious Vale Royal this Friday!!**
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Thursday 29th March Ringway AM AM-Few Spaces available

The battle to win the Shotsaver Order of Merit continues as John Reilly puts in another solid performance to regain the top spot.
There is also a frantic struggle to finish in the top ten and qualify for the famous nine hole Maxitours Shootout after play at Knutsford on 26th April. The top 10 in the final Shotsaver Order of Merit all tee off together on the first hole and the worst net score drops out on each hole (a putt off if 2 or more tie).
Just two players will be left to play the 9th hole and decide the Shotsaver Shootout Champion!

Shootout prizes
1st Shotsaver s320
2nd Shotsaver s210
3rd Shotsaver s210
4th Dozen Taylor Made Pentas
5th Dozen Taylor Made Pentas
6th Dozen Srixon Soft Feel
7th Dozen Srixon Soft Feel
8th Dozen Srixon Soft Feel
9th Dozen Srixon Soft Feel
10th Dozen Srixon Soft Feel

Vale Royal Times
Friday 23rd March.

9.25am Neville Dennis x4
9.32am Colin Roberts x4
9.40am Ian King x4
9.50am John Burt x2 Dennis Humphries x2
10.00am Alex Jerman x2 Richard Blackwell x2
10.08am Dave Stanhope x4
10.16am Dave Stanhope x4
10.24am Gary Garner x4
10.32am Jason Ballard (Sponsor) x4
10.42am Liam Harrison x4
10.53am Paul Taylor x4
11.02am Pete Holmes x4
11.10am Simon Helmsley x4
11.18am Martin Worthington x2 Malc Wells x2
11.27am Andy Taylor x4
11.36am Geoff Haynes x4
11.45am Chris Heggarty x4
11.54am
12.02pm Roger Percival x4
12.10pm Colin Lynch x4
12.19pm Martin Williams x4
12.27pm Ray Ward x4
12.35pm
12.43pm Norman Quick x4
12.51pm Dave Parsons x4
12.59pm John Hilton x4
1.06pm Chris Cyprus x4
1.14pm Frank Garvey x4
1.22pm Carl Kennedy x2 Tony Ramatowski x2
1.30pm Mick Mahon x4
1.38pm John Beech x2 Lewis Marland x2
1.46pm Alan Green x4
1.55pm Steve Graham x2
2.06pm Don Milligan x4
2.15pm Steve Rhodes x4

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Dear Maxitours Golfer,

Firstly thank you for your terrific support of my events last year which is greatly appreciated.

This is my 5th year running Maxitours and I hope you agree this is my best Summer Schedule ever. As always I have tried to provide the best courses at the best prices for my players.

I don’t advertise my events as the Tour has grown by your word of mouth and we have a really nice group of golfers who play this great game in the correct spirit which is essential for the success of Maxitours. Once again EVERY club has welcomed us back and this is mainly down to the great etiquette and respect displayed by our players.

I would finally like to thank all my sponsors for their great support of the tour.

Play well this season!
Yours in Golf,

Tim

Maxitours Fantastic ‘Shotsaver Summer Schedule 2012’

May
Thurs 3rd Pleasington Pairs £25
Thurs 10th Dunham Forest Pairs £25
Weds 16th Vale Royal Am Am Footjoy Masters £25*
Thurs 24th Hazel Grove Pairs Shotsaver Open £20
Tues 29th North Manchester Am Am £20

June
Thurs 7th Prestbury Pairs The Wilson Classic £30*
Fri 15th tbc Pairs £20
Tues 19th Conwy Pairs £30
Thurs 28th Knutsford Am Am £20

July
Thurs 5th Old Worsley Am Am £20
Tues 10th Crewe Pairs Massey Feeds Open £20
Thurs 19th Tytherington Am Am Shotsaver Challenge £20
Thurs 26th Davenport Pairs £20

August
Thurs 2nd Prestbury Pairs JP & Brimelow Classic £30*
Sun/Mon12th,13th Carden Park Pairs/singles £119**
Thurs 16th Hopwood Am Am £20
Fri 24th Vale Royal Pairs £25*
Tues 28th Bramall Park Am Am Taylor Made Open £20

6th September Hazel Grove Am Am £20
12th September tbc Pairs £20
20th September Tytherington Pairs £20
27th September Reddish Vale Am Am £20
*inc bacon bap
** terrific 2 day trip includes accommodation, evening meal, breakfast, range balls, great prizes.

Remaining Maxitours Winter events

Fri March 23rd Vale Royal Shotsaver Classic- full
Thurs March 29th Ringway-last few spaces
Tues April 3rd Conwy Yonex Masters-last few spaces
Tues April 10th Mere Cleveland Classic- last few spaces
Thurs April 19th Prestbury Shotsaver Open-last few spaces
Thurs April 26th Knutsford-last few spaces

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**Fantastic Summer Schedule released tomorrow afternoon!**

Maxitours at stunning Delamere Forest

Another full field enjoyed the wonderful Delamere Forest golf course in todays pairs betterball event.

This great Golf Club is also one of the most exclusive in the country and anyone proposed for membership must be approved by every Committee member. There is a rumour that when a premiership footballer applied for membership recently there were so many black balls flying around the committee room looked like the corner of a rabbit hutch.

Delamere is quite rightly recognised as perhaps the best Inland Winter course in the North of the country and today the greens were a great credit to Paul the Head Greenkeeper and his very hard working staff.

‘What a great course’ said John Travolta lookalike Roger Percival, ‘those greens were unbelievably good’ he added. Percival had earlier rolled in a lovely eagle put on the 2nd to help his team record 46 points which earned a 4th place finish.

Peter Coughlin and Mike Wilson continued their good form as they also collected 46 points with the poorly dressed Mike Wilson collecting back to back birdies on the 7th and 8th holes.

The great Severiano Ballesteros recorded no holes in one in a tremendous playing career. Today Colin Roberts recorded the fifth hole in one of his incredibly average playing career. A delighted Roberts looked like a chubby Hale Irwin as he did a lap of honour around the 6th tee, high fiving his three playing partners before nearly falling into the pond below, after holing his tee shot on Delamere Forests signature 6th hole.

Big and very likeable Dave Antrobus represented Britain at Karate in the 1970’s. Sometimes, when he is playing poorly, he still shows off his fine chopping action as he makes his way around the right side of the golf course. Today Dave teamed up with his new best friend John Anderton and they played great golf to score 47 points. Seven handicapper Antrobus from Vale Royal recorded four birdies ‘it was a great team effort’ said Antrobus ‘even if I did play a lot better than my partner’.

Neil Todd loves his golf but despite being a great supporter of Maxitours he has never had a top three finish. Today the golfing Gods looked down on him and decided that this was his day. ‘That was the best I have ever played’ said a stunned Todd. A chip in for a birdie on the last meant a 47 point hall for the Cheadle man and his better looking partner Don Milligan, and they took the honours with a fine back nine performance. Well played chaps.
Thank you to everyone for playing in todays event.
Tim.

Nearest the Pin 6th Colin Roberts Dozen Srixon soft feel
Nearest the Pin 12th John Robinson Dozen Srixon soft feel

£112.50 2’s 4 proV1s or 8 Srixon AD333s Dave Rose Colin Byrne John Robinson Alan Heyes Eric McNicol Terry Davison Don Milligan Jeff Brand John Burt Jon Bent

**FANTASTIC MAXITOURS SUMMER SCHEDULE RELEASED NEXT WEEK!!**

Prestbury Masters

Another full field turned up to enjoy the Spring sunshine and fantastic course in todays Maxitours event at Prestbury Golf Club.
During last Novembers Maxitours event, Wayne Rooney was up his ladder cleaning the guttering and was very impressed as he watched Mike Daggitt made a lovely birdie on the 15th hole. Today Rooney delayed setting off for tonights match at Old Trafford to watch Daggitt in action. He was very disappointed to see the Bramall man fighting with a couple of daffodils on his way to a very scrappy bogey.
Rooneys mood soon improved when Dick Perry made a tremendous eagle on the tough par four 16th hole and Colleen even had to stop him from running over the course as he tried to give Perry a football style hug and kiss.
Peter Coughlin and Mike Wilson were delighted to record their highest ever finish as 44 points earned them second place. Peter and Mike are lovely chaps who enjoy playing golf in the same scruffy outfits each week, tonight they were in danger of not being recognised by their wives as they returned home proudly wearing their trendy new Galvin Green sweaters.
Ian King and Darren Whittaker have played plenty of bad golf recently however today they were back to their best as ‘Oil Magnate’ King recorded three birdies in his teams 44 points as they finished third.
Paul Bradley and Seamus Keegan, and Paul Tomasson and Mike Bishop also played great golf to be in the prizes with 43 points.
American tour pro Hunter Mahan ‘has a swing so sweet you could pour it over a pancake’ as the Americans would say. He recently had his biggest career victory when he beat Rory McIlroy to win the World Matchplay Championship. Today charismatic Mick Mahon (who looks like he has eaten too many pancakes) also recorded the biggest win of his career as he teamed up with Richard Palmer and they scored a terrific 45 points to take the honours in some style.
Liam Harrison was as sick as a parrott when partner Graham Brownhill three putted the last green to miss out on victory by a shot. Brownhill hit a great approach shot into the last however he was very disappointed to see his ball finish in three putt territory on the back fringe. This is known game as an Arthur Scargill (great strike, poor result.)
Many thanks for playing in todays event, I hope you all enjoyed the day, Tim.

2’s £125 39 5 pro V1s or 10 Srixons each
Trevor Golds Mike Kirkman Mike Wilson Moby Rawthore Terry Davison
Mike Bishop Dick Perry Brian Mottram
Nearest pin 7th Peter Moores dozen Srixon AD333s
Nearest the pin 17th John Anderton Srixon AD333s

***Please note Prestbury next Thursday is now a 12 o’clock shotgun***

Pristine Ringway Results

Spring finally arrived as 116 Maxitours players battled through the sweltering Manchester heat on the lovely Ringway course today.
Unfortunately Brian Mottram suffered a touch of sunstroke which made him a little delirious and he then had a couple of pints which sent him over the edge: ‘I ll take you to watch Stoke City play one Saturday Tim, you’ll really enjoy it, they have got some great players’ he gibbered.
March is normally a time of year when golf courses look a little bit scruffy after a long Winter. Ringway however, was immaculate and once again a real credit to the superb greenstaff who were up early preparing the course with pride for todays players- many thanks chaps.
In a touching tribute to the late talented pop star Dave Jones who passed away yesterday Paul Taylor, Barry Rigby, John Wreag and John Baxter all decided to play like a team of monkeys and they returned a score of just 60 points.
Richard Preston was very excited as he skipped to the first tee clutching his fantastic new Taylor Made white headed R11 Driver. He was looking forward to destroying the Ringway course with his new weapon.
‘Do you do trade-ins?’ he asked on completion of his round. For anyone interested in Richards driver the top of the club is a bit scuffed where he got under the ball once or twice, but the sweetspot is still in absolutely immaculate condition.
In todays event the Denton team recorded 78 points to take 5th position. Ian George and Steve Dunphy are great lads who both work for Servisair at the nearby airport. They often struggle to get permission to play from their wives today however they told them that were putting in a shift at Ringway this afternoon- everyone was a winner!
Trevor Golds, Mike Lynch, Keith Bowden and John Keenan played superb golf as they scored 81 points. ‘Trevor played great’ said his team ‘he is normally absolutely hopeless.’
The Irish team of Frank Garvey, John Dolan, Seamus Keegan and Paul Bradley had another strong finish as they scored 83 points to record their second top three finish in recent weeks. Eamonn Darcy lookalike Frank Garvey normally plays like Mrs Darcy, however big hearted Frank birdied the 4th and 11th holes as he held his team together with some really magical shots.
Taking the honours was Frank Massey and his Swinton Park team. Neville Dennis is struggling with an ear infection and he was replaced by 3 handicapper Ian Taylor who played tremendous golf as the experienced team scored 86 points to win by three shots. Irishman Jimmy O’Reilly was delighted with his win, ‘we played well to be sure, to be sure’.
Many, many thanks to all who played today, your continued support is always really appreciated.
Tim

Nearest pin 13th Dozen AD333 Tim Johnson
Nearest pin 16th Dozen AD333 Dave Barrow

2’s 42 balls 7 PRO v1 balls or 14 srixon balls.
I Ainsworth B Mottram Gareth Winstone John Bent Dave Barrow J Davies